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    Winter Prey
    Winter Prey
    Winter Prey
    Audiobook11 hours

    Winter Prey

    Written by John Sandford

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Few writers have explored the human dark side with as much insight and power-and in Winter Prey, his shattering New York Times best-seller, Sandford tells his most ice-blooded tale of all. Minneapolis Lieutenant Lucas Davenport has tracked killers in cities across America. But even he may be unprepared to face the savage murderer hunting human prey in the Wisconsin woods this winter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 13, 2012
    ISBN9781464041877
    Winter Prey
    Author

    John Sandford

    John Sandford is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of thirty-three Prey novels, two Letty Davenport novels, four Kidd novels, twelve Virgil Flowers novels, three YA novels co-authored with his wife, Michele Cook, and five stand-alone books.

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    • 4/5
      Unlike most authors, I'm not reading the Prey books in order - I'll pretty much take whatever I can get, whenever I can get it. This book is quite early in the series, before the BCA. This is the story in which Davenport meets Weather.

      Of course that's not the whole plot. The "bad guy" was a mystery (to me) until quite late in the book. The references to child molestation were a bit off-putting toward the beginning of the book, though murder-wise, this was less gruesome than some other Prey stories.

      Probably not my favorite of the series, but it was still strong. It was good to get the Lucas/Weather story "first hand".

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Lucas Davenport is on his 'break' from the Minneapolis Police Department, and hiding out in Northern Wisconsin when in the next county a triple murder is committed and the local sheriff asks Lucas to give him a hand in solving it. It turns out to be just the thing to pull Lucas out of the doldrums. The body count continues to rise, and Lucas is getting to the point he's willing to step on some toes to get things done.This is a decent one of the series, like all of them things generally start off with a bang and don't stop until the climactic conclusion. Action packed and fairly smartly written. Certainly worth the read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This was a long one. Once the Iceman's true identity was revealed it confirmed that I couldn't have figured it out before it was revealed, and man did I struggle trying to do just that. I hate to say but I am glad that a certain character was killed, because I just did not want any chance of that one recurring at any point. Sandford really does a number on you with cold on this one. Winter, indeed!! I couldn't read the book without a blanket and a hot drink!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great Davenport story - checks all the marks. Only weird thing about this book is they didn’t edit the audio much so there are weird pauses where you hear mouth noises of the reader. Seriously.

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    • 4/5
      Davenport becomes embroiled in the wake of another serial killer in a fresh setting. Winter Prey takes the action outside of the Twin Cities and is a classic detective story, with a frenetic finale. As ever, Sandford's literary style is easy to read, full of interesting dialogue and the requisite twists and turns. Winter Prey is what you expect and nothing more, but that still makes a good read.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite Davenport novels. His character seems to grow more human and less larger-than-life.
    • 4/5
      liked the characters and the
      twists. Believed in the hero but not the cast.
    • 5/5
      Love this book I've started another one can't wait so far so good
    • 4/5
      Cameras and sex - never a good idea.Jobless after a police brutality charge, Davenport is holed up in his cabin during a north woods winter - not the best place for someone with depression. Lucky for him, a baffling murder in a nearby town has the sheriff requesting help.Excellent.
    • 4/5
      It is winter in the remote, dark Wisconsin woods, but the chill in the local sheriff's bones has nothing to do with the weather. The extravagance of the crime is new to him: the murdered man, woman and child; the machete-like knife through the man's head; the ashes of the fire-consumed house spread over the ice and snow. In desperation, the sheriff turns for help to the reclusive lawman he'd heard had a cabin up here, and with reluctance Davenport agrees, but it is a decision he will soon have reason to regret.
    • 3/5
      I wish Goodreads had a rating category that allows you to rate a genre book differently than other literature. Not that John Sanford's Lucas Davenport series isn't lit, but it is tightly-boxed within its genre. There are no big ideas or themes or symbols or other literary devices that take the Prey series from one setframe into the larger literary universe. I like them for what they are: tight prose, emotionally complex, round characters, a few hints but just enough mystery to keep you going. Remember when I read "The Moonstone" in Jeff Franklin's class and wrote all those papers about detective fiction as shaped by reader response criticism? Ah, those were the days...I digress. Who will Lucas bed or accidentally get killed next? What happened to his daughter? Does Lucas fundamentally change from one book to the next? Does it matter? I wish I felt like reading EM Forster or Faulkner this summer, like I used to. Or I could pick up Woolf's "The the Lighthouse" and really revel in that incredibly sparse but strangely lush prose. But I don't. I just don't feel them right now. But on the good news front, my book club is reading "Through a Glass Darkly" for the July pick. I read this book when it came out, probably fifteen or more years ago, and loved the reading experience. So I'm looking forward to that. All I remember is that it's a big rollercoaster ride of pre-Revolutionary France. And it's much better than "Forever Amber," where the author punishes the heroine repeatedly for her slatternly ways. Damn that easily-abused authorial power.
    • 3/5
      Graphic violence. Disturbing premise. Set in the Wisconsin northwoods.